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Language of Description: English

  1. Tante Elisabeth

    Memoir of relatives' experiences during the Holocaust.

  2. Wilbur T. Hooven III papers

    Typescript memoir of liberation experiences at Ohrdruf. Copy of map of the 89th Infantry Division.

  3. Liturgy for Yom Hashoah and Haatzmaut Shabbat services

    Publication: Order of worship for Yom Ha-Shoah service at Temple Akiba, Culver City, CA, in the year 5742 (1982). Booklet compiled by Rabbi Allen S. Maller, printed, 48 pages.

  4. Henriette Mandel papers

    Photocopies of family papers, in French, relating to the eligibility of donor's nephew, Robert Kreidelman, for a war-orphan pension. Also contains evidence that donor's relatives were killed at Auschwitz.

  5. DAF membership fee book for Gerta Aufshnaiter

    DAF membership fee book maintained by Gerta Augshnaiter.

  6. Videotaped testimony of Livia Shacter

    Videotaped testimony of Livia Schacter, Holocaust survivor, recorded at Palos Verdes High School, California in April 1996.

  7. Radovolsky family collection

    Memoir by Ida Radovolsky; memoir by Tsilya Radovolsky; three unidentified photographs.

  8. Mariya Lazaretnik collection

    Memoir; photocopy of a certificate (with translation); photocopy of identification card (with translation); photocopy of document entitled Republican Society of Former Prisoners of Fascist Concentration Camps (with translation); photocopy of Confirmation (with translation).

  9. Alice Berger memoir

    Describes her life in Slovakia before and during the Holocaust.

  10. Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem

    Consists of records filmed at various European Archives. The collection contains material regarding several different topics. A majority of the material concerns partisan groups active in the USSR, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine. This includes reports from partisan groups to Soviet leadership, names list of partisans in the different groups, as well as postwar memoirs and interviews of partisans. The remainder of the material is primarily concerned with Jewish life under German occupation in former Soviet lands, particularly the cities of Kiev, Pinsk, and Brest. This includes German de...

  11. Hitler's death camps

    A memoir about the donor's Holocaust-related experience at Buchenwald with the 87th U.S. Infantry Division.

  12. Executive instinct: Reinhard Heydrich and the planning for the final solution: a report

    Contains an essay, typescript, 31 pages with footnotes, delivered as an address at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on December 6, 1993.

  13. Records of Hidegseg trial

    Copies of documents in the custody of the Budapest Municipal Archives from the trial of the guards of Hidegseg.

  14. Feiga Kerzner receipts

    The Feiga Kerzner receipts consist of receipts Feiga and Benzion Kerzner received from the Soviet Consulate in Tehran documenting some of their donations of large sums of money, Persian carpets, shoes, and other supplies to the Red Army as their contribution in the fight against Hitler.

  15. A statistical analysis of Soviet atrocity charges

    Russian atrocity charges for particular localities are analyzed and compared with a summary atrocity charge issued by the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission. The statistical validity of the atrocity charge is discussed.

  16. Aaron Fleck papers

    Photocopies of certificates and correspondence, in Yiddish, of donor's relatives in Kovno (Lithuania) and Cleveland (Ohio), circa 1878-1940.

  17. Nina Falk collection

    Letter, dated 22 June 1957, to Nina Falk [donor] typed and signed by Otto Frank.

  18. "My Mother's Diary"

    Consists of a copy of a typed English translation of the diary of Ella Pick, originally of Vienna, which she began in 1920 to document the life of her son, Rudi (Rudolph) Pick, who later edited the diary. In the diary, Ella describes Rudi's health and schooling throughout his childhood, addressing him directly after Rudi managed to escape to England. At the end of the diary, she tells him that his parents are soon to depart and writes of how proud they are their son. Also includes a conclusion in which Rudolph writes of his own wartime history and of finding out of his parents' deportation ...

  19. Diary from the ghetto in Budapest

    Donor's mother describes life in Budapest during the Holocaust.

  20. Irmin Steinlieb donation

    Article photocopied from "History of the Jews in Bucovina," vol. I. Copies of postcard and envelope from camps in Poland, 1940, addressed to Committee for the Aid to Jews affected by the war in Switzerland.